Dissipative generation of pure steady states and a gambler's ruin problem

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVA.102.032205arXiv2003.12149MaRDI QIDQ6337490FDOQ6337490

Authors: Vladislav Popkov, Simon Essink, Corinna Kollath, C. Presilla 

Publication date: 26 March 2020

Abstract: We consider an open quantum system, with dissipation applied only to a part of its degrees of freedom, evolving via a quantum Markov dynamics. We demonstrate that, in the Zeno regime of large dissipation, the relaxation of the quantum system towards a pure quantum state is linked to the evolution of a classical Markov process towards a single absorbing state. The rates of the associated classical Markov process are determined by the original quantum dynamics. Extension of this correspondence to absorbing states with internal structure allows us to establish a general criterion for having a Zeno-limit nonequilibrium stationary state of arbitrary finite rank. An application of this criterion is illustrated in the case of an open XXZ spin-1/2 chain dissipatively coupled at its edges to baths with fixed and different polarizations. For this system, we find exact nonequilibrium steady-state solutions of ranks 1 and 2.

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